Adobe relaunched their Flex showcase using Drupal and announced it on stage at the Drupal conference. This will go in history as the first strategically timed release/announcement at a Drupal conference.

Sun Microsystems was a gold sponsor and is working on integrating Drupal and Java (legacy) applications as well as industrial grade deployment of Drupal sites on SAMP (Solaris - Apache - MySQL - PHP). Impressive technology!

NowPublic is going to help drive the development of regression tests for Drupal core. They hired testing talent Rok Žlender to write these tests in the open and hope other people in the Drupal community will start collaborating.

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Roel Guldemond (not verified):

Gaele Strootman (NL) placed minutes of a small Dutch meeting in the Drupal groups. I found that several actions were planned. (And we should prepare, cause if we're heading for Shanghai ... than we will welcome more good organization skills, on top of the overwhelming spirit that I am still feeling, running around my brains!)

Roel: I am working with some Shanghai-based people to promote the user group and do a DrupalCamp over the next 6 months. We are looking at doing a conference at the end of 2008 should everything work as planned.

Feel free to ping me, we can coordinate resources and spirits to ensure a great event ...

Dries: thanks for the shout on Raincity's commitment to the Drupal.org's redesign and my desire to push Drupal in Asia...